SOME STRANGE HYPNOTISM.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3195, 15 April 1911, Page 3

SOME STRANGE HYPNOTISM.

SCENES’ AT SEANCES. Strange incidents have occurred daring certain ihypnotic seances in A'ienna Aviinch necessitated the interference of the police, ivho have now tuauiuden further sittings. In the first case, Avhich took place at Urania, the most modern and popular lecture theatre in Vienna, the doctor experimented with a lady by fixed stare and regular movements of his arms, and deprived ilier of the faculty of volition. Suddenly, the lady, who belongs to a distinguished family,_ became paralysed, and Avas carried in a rigid state out of the place. Turbu-; lent scenes ensued, in the course of which the police commissioner- stopped, tlie experiments, and the hall was only cleared by extinguishing the lights. ■ • The second affair happened in'-a(.con-cert hall. During the production;by a “suggesteur,” named Herrmann, of experiments which were very successful, a competitor suddenly shouted out that there was a danger for those hypnotised, and the police Avere obliged to interfere. The medium at the moment ay as a AvellknoAvn Vienna actress, Frau lei n Santer, Avho obeyed' iinplicitely every order from Herrmann. She even forgot her first name Avhen the “suggesteur” ordered her* to do so. Part of the audience took Herrmann’s side and part that of his rival, but the latter Avas forced out of the hall amidst great uproar, upon which the police put an end to the seance.